Single-payer healthcare vs. Obamacare - "A signal in all the noise"

Salon ^ | David Sirota

[txrefugee]

If he’s not at retirement age, expect your doctor to open an out-of-country clinic in Mexico or Canada for his private cash-paying patients. There will be many innovative solutions to the problem of Communist health care for those who can afford it. For most, it will be the old Soviet-style medical care, which will also solve the problem of too many old people consuming Medicare and Social Security. Big Government plans ahead.

[Lou L]

You do not (will not) know who your doctor will be or what hospital you can go to when you sign up.

I could see in their "Utopian" healthcare system, they would direct doctors into "pools," grouped by specialty. They would tell us, "because of electronic medical records, it's unnecessary for you to have 'your own' doctor...it's an antiquated concept."

[Venturer]

Already many Doctors are becoming Concierge Doctors, I look for the Government to put a stop to that soon, making it illegal to practice medicine unless you practice it for the government.

[MasterGunner01]

Radical idea: Don't sign up. It supposedly takes 7 million enrollees to get ObamaCare running. If there aren't any takers (except for the stupid), there won't be funding for the program. Let the IRS threaten all they want, but if there's no compliance, FedGov can't make ObamaCare work. Starve the beast and it will crash and burn because it isn't workable due to lack of money.